Routes

Planner

Features

Updates

App

Get the App

Notre-Dame de Lorette National Necropolis

Notre-Dame de Lorette National Necropolis

Highlight • Other

Notre-Dame de Lorette National Necropolis

Name: Notre-Dame de Lorette National Necropolis
Rating: 2

Recommended by 24 people

Save

Location: Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, Atrecht, Hauts-De-France, France

Save

See runs here

Take Me There

Routes here

Best routes to Notre-Dame de Lorette National Necropolis

runners

1. The hill of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette and the church Ablain-Saint-Nazaire — loop — running from Ablain-Saint-Nazaire

8.90km

01:03

110m

Moderate run. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

Navigate

Send to Phone

Save

Moderate

365

runners

2. Bois de Noulette loop from Liévin

22.9km

02:29

240m

Hard run. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

Navigate

Send to Phone

Save

Hard

466

runners

3. Pinchoval – Pinchonval loop from Liévin

36.3km

04:04

450m

Hard run. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

Navigate

Send to Phone

Save

Hard

Tips

Paul_C

August 14, 2023

It is the largest French military cemetery and a First World War memorial where more than 100,000 French and German soldiers died in 1915. The cemetery covers 25 hectares and contains more than 40,000 graves, some of which are individual graves.

Translated by Google •

tom

April 9, 2021

Inaugurated in 1925, the necropolis commemorates the thousands of combatants who died on the hill of Lorette between October 1914 and September 1915; it involves :

a military cemetery where 40,058 bodies rest in individual graves and in eight ossuaries;
the "lantern tower", 52 m high;
the "chapel-basilica", of Romano-Byzantine type, 46 m long and 14 m wide.
You will also find the Ring of Memory, a memorial on which are engraved the names of 579,606 soldiers of all nationalities who died in French Flanders and Artois between 1914 and 1918. It was inaugurated on November 11, 2014.

Translated by Google •

JakobusPilger

October 29, 2024

The church dedicated to the Mother of God under the title "Notre-Dame de Lorette" rises in brilliant white and is visible from far away. But the brilliant impression is deceptive, at the latest when the visitor to the site realizes that they are in a huge military cemetery. Around 20,000 individual graves and a further 23,000 victims of war and tyranny buried in ossuaries are deeply disturbing.

Translated by Google •

In the know? Log-in to add a tip for other adventurers!

Details

Informations

Elevation 170 m

Weather

Sunday 21 December

10°C

3°C

0 %

Additional weather tips

Max wind speed: 6.0 km/h

Most visited during

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

See runs here

Take Me There

Location: Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, Atrecht, Hauts-De-France, France

Other Popular Places to Check Out

La Voie Blanche

Canadian National Vimy Memorial

Tout in haut de ch'terril

Memorial canadien

Montée (descente) le long de l’A26

Les ruines de l'ancienne église

ANNEAU DE LA MÉMOIRE

Mont de Justice

Petite voûte naturelle

Nécropole de Notre-Dame de Lorette

Canadian National Vimy Memorial

Autour du Mont Hernu

Notre-Dame de Lorette National Necropolis

1. The hill of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette and the church Ablain-Saint-Nazaire — loop — running from Ablain-Saint-Nazaire

2. Bois de Noulette loop from Liévin

3. Pinchoval – Pinchonval loop from Liévin

Other Popular Places to Check Out

We value your privacy ⛰️

We value your privacy ⛰️